| There was a 300m-long queue of people waiting for "real" Indian food. India's soft power was very much in evidence. Some participants, who had also seen the show India put up at Davos earlier this year, said Hannover "is just 10 per cent of what was done at Davos". |
| However, the numbers here were more and the interest was palpable. CII President R. Seshasayee said the event would lead to significant business opportunities being created. |
| Mandelson SMSes That EU Trade Commissioner Peter Mandelson and Commerce Minister Kamal Nath keep in touch regularly is known. But the extent of regularity was revealed during a press briefing by Nath. |
| Mandelson sent Nath a message on his Palm smartphone that went something like this: "Am in Paris, will call in 45 minutes". |
| Mandelson's sense of urgency is understandable "" the April 30 deadline for completing modalities in agriculture and industrial tariffs has been postponed. |
| Nath replayed his tough stance to Swiss Federal Minister of Economy Joseph Diess and made it clear that there would no compromise on the special and differential treatment for developing countries like India in the Doha round of multi-lateral WTO talks. |
| Off to Tokyo The "India Everywhere" campaign, which was started at Davos, and is now at Hannover, will be going to Tokyo next. |
| "The next event is being held in Japan on May 14 at the Asia Summit of the World Economic Forum," said Commerce Minister Kamal Nath who was quite enthused by the returns he saw from the Hannover event. |
| The minister pointed out that the robots on display by German companies had used Indian software. |
| Beating the parent Germany is the sixth largest foreign investor in India and several German companies are market leaders in their sectors. |
| However, an interesting fact is that many Indian subsidiaries of prominent German companies have outperformed their parent firms. |
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